 So, welcome back to all the remote centers, I hope all of you had wonderful and fruitful session of breakout sessions that we had today from 11.30 to 3.30, we were going through many of the interactions and it was like with very minimal instructions to the remote centers, we saw that many remote centers were doing excellent work like clarifying the audio video related issues, trying to enable desktop sharing, then also suggesting different kinds of ideas on how to share, putting up schedules, when should each participant present etc. and uploading those things into the view making others as presenters. So, I mean with even minimum of scaffolding, we see that lot of the remote centers had taken it up onto them and tried to generate a meaningful interaction with everyone. So, I congratulate each and every remote center for making that breakout session so engaging and so fantastic. You would have seen us coming and posting messages in chat where we were guiding you at some point. So, it was not totally that I mean we ourselves were bit skeptical at the start of this session on how effective this could be, but you have what should I say, you have shown us that the trust that we had in you was completely repaid and we saw some excellent suggestions that were coming from different participants. So, without much ado, I will start this session. So, this is about what happened till now, why we were doing it. We will have Professor Fatak join us at 5 o'clock. So, we will also I mean one thing that you should be doing is you should be telling as you should be telling Professor Fatak what happened over the past four hours and how effective it was for you or how challenging it was for you to do the A-view sessions on your own. So, first let me start with the rationale, the reason why we had this breakout group. Now, as all of you know, immediate practice is what you would require after learning the content to effectively integrate the knowledge that you have learnt across the past few weeks. So, we had lot of these activities in the past two weeks and you we had A-view sessions with you yesterday. Now, it was a time to see whether you were able to make sense of this, whether you were able to understand why these activities were done and whether you were able to present a coherent story to your peers and get your doubts clarified. So, knowledge integration through sharing and Q&A with your peers is was the primary rationale why we had these breakout activities. And we had selected the pedagogy of breakout groups so as to ensure that there is active participation from each participant. Now, see when I am doing an A-view session like this, I am transmitting I am always talking from my end. There is no active participation that is coming from the participant side except for few chat messages. And since there are lot of participants, so we have close to 3000 participants, it will be really hard to engage each and every participant. And we had to move from information transmission to facilitation. So, as to increase the engagement of the participant and to have good retention at the end of the FDP. Now, in the last FDP, we had seen that out of 7000 participants close to 5000 participants successfully completed FDP. And one of the reason for this was a mentor mentee interaction. So, we had top performers from the first FDP that we had conducted act as mentors to these what do you say the new participants of this FDP. And we had scheduled A-view interactions between the mentor and the mentee. Now, there were 170 mentors and they were literally scheduling A-view sessions, two A-view sessions in the first FDP to clarify the doubts of the mentees. So, one mentor had close to 50 mentees under him or her and there was consistent interaction between them. So, we understood that there needs to be lot more engagements between remote centers, participants across remote centers. And it should not be limited to just them hearing the information that we are presenting to come on a Saturday and Sunday. So, that was the first main reason why and that was the objective also that A-view sessions need to be more about the learner that is the faculty participants from remote centers. That is the reason why we had these breakout group and typical success of a breakout group happens when there is careful planning and clear objective along with clarity in instructions. Now, over here I know that we had the handicap that the instructions were verbally communicated to all of you in a session just before it. Now, this was a conscious decision from our end just to see how it goes. So, you all remember this slide that I showed yesterday. We had to implement higher order thinking in FDP 101 both as an individual learner and within RC and one way in which we were doing it is through group activity inside RC and the way in which we were going to evaluate it was peer review through A-view presentation. So, that is what you had done today. So, you presented your ideas to your peers and they gave you back suggestions, clarified your queries and they gave you more importantly constructive feedback on how to do certain things. And in fact, it went beyond just presentation. We heard lot of good discussions happening between remote centers and we also saw chat discussions happening in their chat through your chat window. So, now is the time that we actually do an evaluation of what happened from our side also from IITB side also. So, we have back to back polling questions that will come to your screen in a moment. So, the first poll question that we have for you is regarding the effectiveness of the. So, let us say the number of peer groups who were present in the A-view interaction just now. So, let us see the question. So, the question is how many peer RCs from your group? So, each group had around 10 RCs 9 to 10 RCs grouped into one group. So, after now that you have had your interaction we would like to know how many of your peer RCs from the group presented through A-view. So, the poll will come just now. No, no, no, for all. So, this poll is for everyone. So, the question I will just display in the screen. So, it will be the poll would be visible to you right now. So, a pop-up would be coming at your end. So, we see varied responses. So, there are around 16 RCs who are saying 18 RCs who are saying that all of their peer groups presented. There are close to 20 RCs who say that around 90 percentage of them had presented. There are some in which there was less than 60 percent. So, let me just see how many RCs said that around 8 RCs are saying that less than 60 percentage of them were able to present. So, this is something that we should be looking about. So, though majority are saying that they had more than 90 percentage of their peer groups attending the session. It is concerning, it is slightly concerning us that there are around 9 RCs who are saying that less than 60 percentage of them were able to present. So, we will actually look into it more. So, let us go to the next poll question. The next poll question is about the audio video quality of the interaction. So, the question is how was the audio video quality of the interaction? You could have you could say it was always very good or it suffered issues. Most of the session had audio issues or the entire session was disturbed because of audio video issues. So, if I am looking at the results, I see that there was one RC who are saying that the session was full of audio video issues and around 11 of them who are saying that most of the time they faced audio video issues. We were also seeing some of them while we were exploring each group, each group's discussion from morning. We will definitely work on giving you better guidelines and better suggestions. So, in fact, for each RC, there is an aviu documentation that has been shared with your aviu coordinator where we actually give you how you can maintain better visual quality, how to maintain good audio quality, what you should do when there are some audio issues like how to increase the gain, how to ensure that the video is focused on the video is focused on the participants while they are discussing. So, we will try to make sure that this is ensured more strictly from the next time so that these breakout sessions can be effective for all the participants. Now that we have known about what do you say, the audio video quality and the strengths within the aviu session, the next thing is now think about what happened within your RC. Think about what happened within your RC, how many members from your RC participated in the discussion? So, we had asked each and everyone to engage in the discussion, each RC to engage in the discussion. So, how many members from your RC actually participated in the discussion? So, by participation it means how many of them gave suggestions, how many of them were asking questions, all of this is counter towards participation in the discussion. Be very sincere when you are answering it because we also have screenshots saved from each session. So, every particular within particular frequency we actually take screenshots of the interaction and we were saving it at our end. So, I see that around 20 percentage of the 22 of your RCs are saying that all the members participated in the discussion which is good. So, you have a high majority. So, more than 60 percentage of the graph shows that more than 60 percentage close to 60 of you are saying that 67 of you are saying that more than 60 percentage of people were engaged in the discussion. There are 7 to 8 RCs where not all of them were effectively participating in the discussion to the to those RCs and to those participants. My only request is see these sessions are meant for you. So, just like how as teachers you complain about your learners not being engaged and not being very effective. So, unless and until we ourselves start imbibing these practices it will be really hard to expect your learners also to show you the same dedication and the same engagement within your classroom. So, engage in the discussions because see many of those discussions were very rich. We were able to see different types of practices being shared by faculty across remote centers. So, some people were saying that how they so I saw in a group where they talked about flip classroom. So, the other group was not aware of what happens in a flip classroom and there were 4 of those group members who were not aware of this and they were asking what is flip classroom, how much so how much of your students actually do activity outside the classroom, how many of them are you able to engage inside the classroom and to which the main participant was responding very nicely. Now, where where else will you get these kind of sharing of experiences happening? I mean it is talking about real life what do you say scenarios. So, it is exactly the real life scenario in the practical context what happens in a classroom actually, what all strategies do you apply? I mean all of you would be saying that IITs are very special. So, you would not have that I mean you would not have problems of implementing strategies. Now, it is a similar institute an institute just like yours and a teacher just like you who is talking about flip classroom or any innovative strategies and how his or her students are responding to those activities what they are trying. Now, this cannot be more convincing than that I mean if you do not take this opportunity to share your best practices to learn from each other it will be really hard. So, the main purpose of this FDP itself is to increase the collaboration and make yourself do variety of innovative practices with ICT and as Professor Fadak said yesterday we will just be able to as a teacher we will just be able to show you the path. You will have to take help of your peers you will have to try out several different strategies you will have to engage in these FDP interactions FDP sessions more more diligently to take the best benefit out of these FDP. Now, see we are in a time where the companies are not believing degree certificates issued by universities as in all the companies are saying we understand that that you have got a degree certificate from XYZ University but to work in my company you need to learn new skills. So, at the end of the day any FDP certificate or any course certificate will have the value of only that paper maybe it may improve your so it may help you in your what you say faculty advancement scheme they will give you rating points but is it going to actually benefit your learner. Now, that is a question that we should carefully examine carefully inspect because at the end of the day we are doing all these for our learners I mean we may be learning new technologies we may be learning new practices but it is not for us it is for us to use so that the learners our students benefit from this. So, I would request all the participants to be more proactive be more engaging and ask more participate more in these kind of interaction because this is an opportunity where you get 3000 of your colleagues along with you attending the same session nowhere else will you get such an opportunity ok. Let me go to the next question so now that you have we have seen what is happening inside the RC let me now ask you one question. So, for all the participants who were asking queries and getting feedback from your peers. So, how many of your queries regarding the FDP content where you able to clear from the discussions that happened in the ABU it could be all your queries would have some may say that all their queries got sorted out some may say more than 80 percent some may say more than 60 percent some may say more than less than 60 percent. So, I want the course coordinator to ask everyone within your remote center to actually just think about how many queries got addressed either through explanations given by the other RCs or through the chat window I am just watching the graph over here. So, majority close to 20 25 colleges 25 remote centers are saying that more than 80 percentage of their queries got clarified through this session around 20 of them are saying that all their queries got clarified more than 60 percent another 20 are saying that more than 60 percentage got clarified how many actually. So, there are 3 RCs from where participants were unable to clarify most of their queries and I would I am suspecting that many of these RCs were part of the group where video quality was slightly hampered and there were lot of disconnects that were happening. So, I understand that you have the issues and you have the queries. So, I will be sharing the padlet sharing a padlet with all of you towards the end of the session where you can ask these queries online and we will have both us the our TA team as well as other participants trying to solve these queries for you. Now, now is an interesting question. See, we have done this breakout session I would say with moderate success today from today 11 30 to 3 30. Now, we have 2 more interactions actually 4 more interactions going to happen in FDP 201 which is in May. So, in May we have the FDP the it is the next FDP starting in May 3rd and we have 2 intermediate interactions somewhere around the 2nd and 3rd week of May. Would you recommend that we have half day session devoted to such breakout interactions between RCs? So, it will be much more detailed. So, now you will see the poll coming up to your screen, but have a look at the options that are entered. The first option is yes. The second option is that yes, but give testing time for us in few days in advance. The third is yes, but provide better focus questions for us to discuss and the last one no this is a waste of time. So, maximum of you are saying that please provide better focus questions for the next version of the FDP around 30 40 50 of you. So, 13 plus 32 around 55 56 of you are saying that this was worth it, but this could improve through minor modifications in terms of instructions and clarifications. There are around 8 of you 7 of you who are saying that this was a waste of time. Now it I would really want these RCs to give us your feedback about today's interaction session because your feedback is the most important for us why this was why you are saying that it was why you are saying that it was not worth it. You may give your answers through chat or there is going to be a dedicated activity that is going to come next where we will ask you to send an email to our course group. See one important thing I also agree that the instructions were given very late and there was some there need needed to have we needed to have a little more clarity on why we are doing this what you have to do etc. But so we will actually look into ways in which we can fine tune this further because a view sessions one of the things that we saw was that mentors to where we are coming from is because last time with a minimum instruction time. So, the mentors or the top performers of previous FTP were not given too much training in a view and without that they were able to still manage to operate this a view software and conduct a view interaction sessions with their mentees and it was almost a straightforward thing because most of them had seen a view in their own remote center being used and many of the interface are slightly intuitive. So, I understand that a view is slightly difficult to actually make sense of initially but as you get used to it you will understand various ways in which you can use this further for interactions among yourself. Now, we will definitely improve the focus questions because this time's focus question was generically based on yesterday's activity. We saw that there was less activity that happened yesterday and we felt that there are there is lot of these untapped knowledge among participants that needs to be shared. So, like regarding various formalities within WordPress or how to use different software, participants seem are much more knowledgeable than the course instructors ourselves and it is important to connect participants to each other either through discussion forum and what always makes a differences of face-to-face communication ideally close a physical one but if not physical at least synchronously in a virtual medium that really makes a lot of difference that is what we have seen. We will try to improve the breakout practice a little more we will give you more refined instruction we are going to give more careful instructions we are going to give it very much in advance to the course coordinator and for all the participants we will upload those in IIT Bombay X so that all participants will benefit from those abusations. So, just like how we have the learning experience interactions where there is a focus question and there is an instruction for posting and there is an instruction for discussion we will follow a similar format for the next set of breakout activities that we are having but one important thing that you should understand is breakout activities are here to stay. So, just like how technology is present everywhere we are going to use this technology but see it is for half day. So, if you have like one full day of a session half day would be devoted to interaction remote center. So, we will have more carefully planned activities. So, it is it is up to me but I will extend it further such things should definitely be done and I will advise JK to keep this in mind to design like this. But what prevents these groups themselves and particularly the teacher of the mentor institution so designated which is the hub for those nine institutions from doing precisely this why is it that we believe all of us believe that is only IIT Bombay which should be giving assignments and other should be only doing it. After all we are in this business together and we need contributions from everyone. I would make a further suggestion based on the feedback that you just heard a very intelligent and sensitive observation has been made that to consolidate learning it is not adequate just to have interaction but it is also important to have an assignment. So, here is my challenge to you over coming days the remote centers which coordinated with these nine institutions could think of an assignment we will not take this as a marked assignment. So, please be assured that your performance or your certification will not be affected in this but this is such a beautiful suggestion that if this suggestion is taken up in a distributed manner then our friends not only at the remote center which was the local hub for nine institutions but even the other nine institutions which participated and the participants in each of these institutions why could not they come up with some assignment. So, let us embark on a completely new journey optional no marks no nothing but we first of all we thank our friend there who did not identify himself I will go back to that center again to let us have his name yes. Sir this is Professor B. A. Patil from. Yeah I am sorry I am sorry now I remember you did you did identify yourself fine fine let us go back. So, let us take Professor Patil's suggestion as an additional exercise for all of us perhaps to be best than in groups that we identify small assignments based on whatever we have been doing for last two weeks after all it is not only J. K. and our team which is familiar with what you have been doing for the last two weeks all of you are familiar with it because all of you have been doing it nothing prevents you from forming small groups and coming up with such assignment. Let us compile all these assignments let us compile all these assignments I will request J. K. to create a link where people can submit they should identify themselves see what assignment they have given preferably anybody who constructs or any group which constructs such an assignment should perhaps discuss this assignment with some other groups as well. So, that there is a larger contribution and we will compile all these assignments we will definitely use some of these as regular marked assignments or assessed assignments counting towards certification in future FDPs after all that is how question banks get created is not it and believe me when I say this those of us who are running this course from here might have a little more experience than you, but that experience is not all pervasive we also need to learn this suggestion made by professor Patil should have occurred to us it did not occur to us that is the value add that each individual participant can do to the process. So, I take this as a process modification suggestion or recommendation I like this suggestion very much except that instead of every participant saying ah is a good suggestion let IIT Bombay go ahead and implement it I disagree with that IIT Bombay will of course do that and I am not going to leave J. K. unless he actually gives me a list of three or four assignments which will also be added to the pool, but I want all of you in groups or individually to think about it and prepare such assignment. Thank you so much for this suggestion Dr. Patil. Let us go over to R. V. Institute Pune. Oh R. V. Institute of Technology I ok over to you I will I will make a statement about your institute later, but please go ahead you have a very beautiful ah auditorium that I can see over to you. Thank you sir ah this is Geeta Patil from our IIT here we are total 75 participant and this is our first time we are organizing something under the remote center this is our new remote center ah so like when we are going for this we got very excellent support from your AVU team we had done 3-4 time testing and that so every time we got a very good support from AVV team and and there is a there is a one question from our center. Yeah please go ahead. Good evening sir myself Dr. Mahesh Gauder from MIT Academy of Engineering, first of all let me thank you for this wonderful efforts taken by IIT Bombay and even the remote center ah it was a very good learning experience especially to evaluate ourselves for the higher level of knowledge learning and assessment, but one thing I would like to know sir where is it feasible to ah imbibe learning management tools into the ah web presser word press sorry is it feasible to link LMS with the word presser like model. So the question asked by Professor Gauder is is it feasible to use learning or link learning management systems to word press ah the answer is both again slight yes and a large no. Now word press is a content management system so in itself it has not enough functionalities that has been added to make it a learning management system now word press being open source it does not limit any university or any individual to try out making word press a learning management system. So in fact my good friend Dr. Yogan Drapal he has converted word press into a learning management system and has been giving out activities for students from the vernacular medium of Hindi about how to learn website creation how to learn Drupal etc he has a customized platform for that. Is there also open source? No that he has not made open source the word press is open source that is not very fair because as as at least as a basic philosophy and principle anything no the this he has added something yeah he has added something he has not modified no no no so his addition I think the technology is there in git but the product is currently his okay so what we were saying is that it is possible but it will take lot more effort but you already have standard learning management systems like Moodle which are in the open source and many institutes are actually using it in fact IIT Bombay with a student strength of around 5000 sorry now 10000 is using Moodle for as its learning management system and the IIT Bombay X which is based on OpenEDX is being used by many universities across the world for their outreach programs so yes yes in the sense that you can customize word press by adding few quotes and make it a learning management system but I would strongly recommend not to do that because you have a specific system with which has all the functionalities of a learning management system so it is always better to use that for your learning management and in fact you can do the reverse you can include your wordpress webpage as a blog in your Moodle system that is possible I would like to add further that there is a certain purpose for a tool and to my mind wordpress has a very limited functionality it is meant for a specific purpose but when it comes to learning management system he suggested that you should start using Moodle perfectly fine I would go one step forward and suggest the following yesterday I mentioned that we are we are preparing a distribution of OpenEDX called modifiable MOOCs platform what prevents you from downloading that and using that as a online mechanism for giving your own courses to your own students because after all that is another open source platform I will suggest one more thing take AVU for example we have been using AVU effectively across the country consider a college which has let us say 600 or 700 students admitted to the first year and you are required to teach a first year course we face that problem in IIT everybody has that problem what prevents a college from taking AVU setting up an AVU server and setting up in say five or six different classrooms a mechanism through which a single expert teacher can actually engage the regular classes in all the five or six classrooms and the associate faculty or teaching assistants attend every classroom where every 10 minutes or 15 minutes you take a break of lecturing and convert that class into small tutorial discussions spearheaded by your associate faculty or TA this is a mechanism that IIT Bombay routinely uses whenever we address for example all new MTech entrance for the first time our director our dean he speaks from they speak from one classroom but there are four or five classrooms in which these students their parents are assembled and they all are able to listen to the dean and director and are able to interact these are just suggestions I am making but please do identify which are the best tools please please do identify which are the most affordable tools from the point of view of your own infrastructure most colleges should have now good servers including servers which have VMs or virtual capabilities and it should be possible to implement this well I do not know whether it is the army institute of technology is there any other engineering college in Pune bearing the name army institute is there is there an institute the question is that is there another institute yeah is there another institute in Pune which is also called army college of engineering or something or this is the only institute institute in India sir army institute of technology is for engineering I see where you the where you the institute of armament technology at one point and no it is it is there but it is different so I think it is your institution the episode that I remember is a colleague of mine Dr. Samir Sahasrabudde has conducted a book on animation and when he was trying to find out mechanisms of intervention or reaching out to people he went across to someone so there is a lady faculty member in army institute who scored the maximum marks in that course taken by several thousand people and that is what I suddenly remembered I thought I will relate to that that is all right thank you so much and I am really very happy and pleased with such a large participation from your center yes sir thank you very much we will go to one more center and then I wish to close because 5 30 hello sir hello hello over to you yeah good evening sir it's me Sunil Kumar from mighty engineering college this entire RC is a SDMID oh sir before joining to this FDP usually as usual we are not knowing anything about world press or the advanced in teaching learning activities but by this FDP we are come to know how to use the tools to impart the knowledge to the students lord sir this is what the the advanced running of the world in the advanced running of the world students are moving forward but being teachers we should cope up with the students in this regard the teaching whatever you are the videos the classes you have given in the FDP they are very what interesting and very knowledgeable they give the knowledge imparting knowledge to us so that we can use the same thing to our students also sir at this moment I would like to promise that these things will definitely utilize to impart knowledge to our students very good so thank you thank you for our team we are really very thankful and grateful to you and your team the IATBX IATBX for providing such a platform to learn the things thank you very much hello sir hello hello hello hello can you sir yeah we had a very good interaction with waltz and instruct technology that you have created that groups that that was very helpful for us because we got new ideas that ideas of approach that how we can teach the students it was a very good experience sir thank you very much for conducting this kind of a workshop here thank you very much my special thanks to waltz and institute for I you see as I said earlier I expect each RC to become an IIT in its own right in the future years to come and I am so happy to note that the interaction with waltz and college was very useful which waltz and is this solapur or waltz and college solapur fine we'll just go to one marath you're good oh waltz and ha hello good evening so I good evening sir yeah good evening sir actually my name is nages nagaraj kharade I'm assistant professor in English I representing tangmeshwar college solapur and I thank from the bottom of my heart for taking an initiative for providing such a platform to us that is FTP and as far as today's our studies things are concerned I thank the RC coordinator Sunita Dolman I thank all the IIT Bombay X for conducting different kinds of activities for us and actually as far as this AVU interactions are concerned I would like to suggest a few things that AVU interactions in AVU interactions we were the teachers and I'm happy to be the part of this institution that is RC 1131 and I am very grateful to ma'am and all the participants for involving me in this interactions and as far as this AVU interactions are concerned I would like to suggest that there should be more areas of interactions because the limited areas were there like you know WordPress WordPress web creation and then some sort of RC and individual page creations so in three hours we were discussing a limited part of activities so I request that more things should be involved in it and we should be given more things more topics to be discussed so that we can discuss more and more topics in a clear way that's what I feel thank you very much for this suggestion Professor Nagesh but let me ask you one more question because going forward as I said our endeavor IIT Bombay's endeavor is to bring all teachers and students into our fold in particular we are trying to see how these two FDPs can reach out to a much larger segment of teachers from higher education since you are a professor of English you might know more about the state of affairs in our other higher educational institutions such as College of Arts College of Commerce and such institutions College of Science etcetera in such institutions do you believe that these two FDPs as we are conducting them will be useful or would you suggest some modifications or some additions over to you again actually sir these are very useful as far as my experience is concerned I have been teaching English for the last three years and I had been using only vlogger.com to give some sort of materials and we used to show the videos, PPTs and all but today in this FDP program I got new platforms or new sources through this program and definitely it will be very useful for the students and I have I've been trying to my level best to implement more and more in my teaching. Thank you coordinator wanted to say something yeah from Balchan Institute of Technology and I have been meeting I'm meeting you and seeing you on screen after 25 years I was there for your lecture that you had at Balchan Institute of Technology in the year 1992 and we have organized that in a very small hall here we have now a big remote center specially dedicated for IIT Bombay and I'm really excited I'm excited to be a participant of this particular workshop because now we have adopted blended teaching and we are using all your ICT whatever you have suggested videos our content creation and material which is available as our course journal form in some form or the other we are already transmitting it to students but now doing a formal workshop is really exciting for me at this age so that we can continue seeing the new comers which are our new students and being very interesting and having an active teaching approach for them thank you. Thank you so much may I just take the last Marathwada institution if their friends there yes over to you Marathwada Institute Aurangabad. I am Anita Pufate, FDP coordinator as a FDP coordinator my concern is manual attendance of participants please go ahead yeah please go ahead please go ahead ma'am so we could use android app or something else for attendance participant attendance one more participant now curie so I will hand over my to him hello yeah good evening sir yeah this is Vinod from MIT Aurangabad sir I would like to know actually there were a discussion in today's morning session with JK sir of one of the faculties from one of the RCs that the question of that faculty was the the technologies like ICT puts the job of the teacher in danger this was the question in today's morning session and the answer of the answer given by JK sir was no and this will create more job opportunities so sir actually since today not being I am talking about this and I am good so I could not correlate that with the answer so I would like to know I would like to know that how this kind of technology is like I said create more jobs for the teachers in future please sir this question has been raised by so many people at so many places that I feel like writing an article I may write one which will be titled beyond MOOCs and so on but my short answer is very simple in the entire human history and most possibly even in future the learning will happen from multiple means earlier it happened by word of mouth then it happened through reading books and so on but there has been no occasion ever in the entire human history where a human touch was not contributing to learning conventionally they are school teachers college teachers or whatever but as I keep repeatedly saying we learn from our parents when we are young children when we grow up as professionals we continuously learn from our seniors and our mentors and our friends learning my dear friend essentially is enhanced by human interaction far more than what it is enhanced by the means of technology and by means of tools so rest assured that the teachers jobs are not going away anywhere teachers will continue to be required in coming years that is my firm belief however I would like to add one word of caution teachers will be meaningful to the learners only if teachers also adapt quickly to new technologies that are emerging today if I continue to teach using a blackboard and chalk it is not that I will not teach effectively but it is that my students will learn will not learn as effectively as they could if I was to use the emerging technologies better therefore I have two short answers to your question number one the teachers jobs are not at all threatened but number two what is being threatened is the way in which the teachers consider teaching learning process they must learn these new things they must adapt to this and they must train their students please do not forget that some of your students are going to be future teachers if you keep them half bank in the use of technology they themselves when they will become teacher may not use the technology effectively don't forget that in our early years of teaching we invariably copied the style of the teachers who taught us we tried to become good teachers but we were essentially directed or essentially guided by what we learn from our teachers and therefore those teachers who actually forced us to think forced us to experiment forced us to adapt new thing those were the most valuable teaching as far as we as young teachers was concerned we must therefore remember this teachers will always be required but teachers who adapt the latest technology the best technology to maximize the learning will be the most effective teachers that is all I would say it is already 533 I just wanted to make a two minute concluding remark and then we will close the session many of you may not know but I shall be retiring as a full professor of this institute in a few days time you see even the government of India cannot engage a person as a regular professor beyond the age of 70 however so this in a sense is my last formal interaction as a regular professor of the department of computer science and I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for this participation thank my institute for having given me so much freedom and supported me in all these endeavors I would also like to say that while I retire from my formal position I am not going to disappear anywhere my institute has already told me that I will continue to be engaged in an honorary capacity as a meritus professor and hopefully my department will give me an office so I will keep coming here and since giving unsolicited advice has been one of my hobbies I will keep doing it it is 100 percent certain that IIT Bombay will continue to conduct such programs in coming years and therefore you may see me occasionally so the teacher Phatak will still be there but the professor IIT Bombay Phatak it is his last appearance thank you so much God bless you sir for those motivating words for all the participants who are having queries so please note that we are taking note of the queries so to all participants from different regions I know that today is Ram Navami and many of you had were on yeah on a fast for the entire day I am really sorry that we had to postpone the first interaction but it was a technical issue at our end which forced us because there was a power outage and there were so many event clashes that actually forced us to change the schedule from 11th of March to 25th of March I mean we would have loved to have provided you that cushion even on those festival days but we will make sure that we will never postpone the schedule of the FDP interactions further in the upcoming FDP so the for the upcoming FDPs we have already frozen the dates of interaction and we have actually circulated it to all remote centers so all to all remote centers who were all participants who are present in spite of the various difficulties I am really thankful for all of you for making this session a reality and making providing even I mean engaging yourself completely so that other participants also benefit so in from on behalf of each and every one in this particular from IIT Bombay I thank everyone so the queries which you have posted in chat and as well as questions we will be addressing them in the coming week so we have our course TA team so I am taking a dump of all these questions and I am giving the questions to course TS and we'll be answering them in the coming days one more way in which you could actually interact with us is that I have actually created a padlet for this particular FDP for people who are not familiar with padlet we'll give you an instruction on how to post the questions in padlet so we have set it up for queries so you can see this is a padlet that we have created you can actually post your queries regarding FDP over here the queries could be of three types one is on the content of the FDP second is on the operational aspects of the FDP and the third is on technical queries related to the FDP I'll just share the link with you in chat as well as we'll be mailing it to you in as as instructions tomorrow yeah yes so I'll be emailing this to all participants as a separate email today itself and you can post your queries onto this and we will try to answer them individually so once again thanking each and everyone for a wonderful session that you had provided for each RCs for each participant who came to the RC and involved themselves to the team the video studio team over here the workshop team over here who are supporting us thank you and that's all from IIT Bombay today enjoy the upcoming days of activities and we wish that everyone has a better teaching learning experience in the days to come thank you